Hours at home : a popular monthly, devoted to religious and useful literature

by: Sherwood, J. M. (James Manning), 1814-1890

Publication date: 1865

Topics: American literature, Christian literature, American, Theology

Publisher: New-York : Charles Scribner & Co.

Collection: lincolncollection; americana

Digitizing sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

Contributor: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection

Language: English

Volume: Vol. 1, no. 5

Cover title

Lincoln collection has 3 v.: Vol. 1, no. 2-3, 5 (June-July, Sept. 1865)

Bound in paper wrappers, with printed lettering on covers and spine, and printed decorative border on front cover

Subtitle from caption: A popular magazine of religious and useful literature

Frontispieces accompanied by guard sheets

Text in two columns

Vol. 1, no. 2 (June 1865): Lacks cover and frontispiece ; Inscription in pencil at head of caption title: Lincoln, p. 158, p. 184, Gen. Sheridan, p. 175 ; P. 158-162: "In memoriam" [or, Personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln] ; P. 184-193: Abraham Lincoln [or, Estimate of Abraham Lincoln]

Vol. 1, no. 3 (July 1865): Inscription in pencil on cover p. [1]: Lincoln, p. 238, p. 264 ; P. 238-243: A nation on its knees / E.H. Gillett ; P. 264-266: British sympathy in our affliction ; Publisher's advertisements on cover p. [3]-[4]

Vol. 1, no. 5 (Sept. 1865): Lacks back cover ; Inscription in ink on cover p. [1]: Lincoln, p. 446 ; P. 446-448: Mr. Lincoln's favorite poem, and its author [William Knox] / by James Grant Wilson ; Publisher's advertisements on [4] p. at end